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Barriers to the adoption and development of precision farming technologies within the cereals and oilseeds sector have been identified in an AHDB review. Looking at the past, present and future of precision agriculture (PA), the in-house review was conducted to identify ways to improve the uptake of precision farming technology in the UK. The review culminated in several key recommendations for...

Most potato growers could afford to cultivate at least one inch shallower, according to NIAB research scientist, Mark Stalham, who outlined the benefits of reduced cultivation at the latest AHDB SPot Farm walk.
The event, held at James Daw’s farm in Staffordshire, identified reduced erosion, better work speeds and reduced costs as just some of the advantages associated with limiting secondary...

Potato farmers and contractors are being reminded of a new dose rate limit for stored potato crops this season.
This change is part of the gradual annual reduction in CIPC total dose permitted, and is a core component of the CIPC stewardship process.
Chlorpropham (or CIPC) is isopropyl-N-(3-chlorophenyl) carbamate, and is widely used as an agrochemical applied to stored potatoes.
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Despite a soggy start to the day, more than 700 farmers, scientists, policymakers and potato industry representatives visited the James Hutton Institute’s Balruddery Farm to take part in Potatoes in Practice 2016 - the UK’s largest field-based event in the potato industry calendar. Organised and hosted by the James Hutton Institute in partnership with AHDB Potatoes, SRUC (Scotland's Rural College...

Scottish know-how could soon be helping potatoes push rice to one side of dinner bowls in China following the promise of greater collaboration between Asia’s largest commercial grower of the crop and a Dundee-based research institute.
Hailing the James Hutton Institute as “number one” in terms of research into the crop, China’s self styled “King of Potato”, Liaing Xisen, said he was keen to build...